"So, maybe you heard about the Asteroid?"
You'll have to be more specific than that. See, there's a few thousand just within visual range of Earth.
"OF COURSE, YOU DUMMY!!"
No need to shout.
"The dinosaurs were killed off by an EXPLOSION!!"
Says who?
Nobody knows what killed them all off, though it was likely climate change. Now, what caused that climate change could very well have been an impact from an asteroid. Then again, all of the dinosaurs could have been dead for a week from a super virus before the impact. It's kind of hard to narrow down what happened in one instance of time when you're talking about things on a geological time scale.
"You were expecting something less?"
Yep. Viruses and bacteria could well have killed off a substantial portion of the dinosaurs as new migration routes opened up due to lower water levels or plate tectonics. You know, much like how the Europeans decimated most of the native populations of the Americas with flu, smallpox and various fevers from which the Europeans were resistant but the natives succumbed to easily.
"Have you forgotten about the coolness of explosions, and how they made everything, and now they're destroying everything?"
Explosions don't make anything except a very large mess composed of itty-bitty little pieces of whatever you happened to have blown up. And a blast crater. Cant' forget the blast crater.
I suspect, however, that you're now going to rant about how the Big Bang "made" everything when it "exploded", right? Please don't make yourself look that ignorant.
"An Asteroid smashed into the earth, and somehow it chose to mess with the dinosaurs, while leaving lots of other things alone."
Yes. Lots of other things (ok, maybe not "lots") like deep ocean dwelling creatures and... well, not much else. Pretty much all life on the surface of the planet and the shallow oceans ceased to exist nearly instantaneously. Few plant forms survived so the dinosaurs that did make it didn't have anything to eat if they were vegetarian and the large carnivores soon were without prey. Once the large prey animals died off the large carnivores would have no chance of catching the smaller, and faster, dinosaurs that had survived.
"See, things never work out the way you wanted them to. Here they were, dominating the earth (supposedly) and puffing up their chests with pride at how big they were, and along comes this Asteroid and shows them a thing or two."
Hubris is a dangerous thing. Perhaps you should learn from their demise. You seem to fail to realize that within the past century or so there have been a handful of Near Earth Asteroids which could quite easily have killed off all of humanity and there's not a damned thing we could have done--or could do now--to stop it.
You, my poorly informed friend, are no safer than the dinosaurs and may one day share their fate.
"Now, the REALLY weird thing is that, most of the remnants of dinosaurs, mainly bones, are BURIED IN SEDIMENT. Like they died in, you know, a FLOOD."
Look up "erosion" to start with. Then look up "plate tectonics". In fact, just go to the juvenile section of your local bookstore and open any book on dinosaurs and it'll likely have an explanation for you that you can comprehend.
Like that one on Mars, where there's no evidence of water that could cause a FLOOD."
There's evidence of flowing liquid water on Mars. There is, to my knowledge, no evidence of any "flood" on Mars of any scale that you wouldn't expect from rivers of the size that would have existed.
"But no, it had to be an asteroid, because if we say it was a FLOOD, that's too much like admitting that some other belief might be right."
It doesn't have to have been an asteroid you moron. Scientists, most of them anyway, say it was an asteroid because that's what the evidence dictates. There is no fucking evidence anywhere of a global flood. You know who first discovered that? Christian geologists who went out in search of such evidence and didn't find any.
